‹M’Culloch›, his opinion on landed property quoted, 253.
‹Machiavel› quoted, 56.
‹Malthus› on population, referred to, 113.
Vindicated from violent attacks made on him, 397.
Authors of those attacks writers of no reputation and grossly
ignorant, ‹ib.›
Malthus feared that, with so great a power of reproduction,
mankind would come to exceed what the earth could maintain but
for prudence and foresight, 398.
An expression which occurred in the first edition of his Essay
on Population, to the effect that population increases in a
geometrical, and food in an arithmetical progression, gave rise
to misrepresentation, ‹ib.›
Made a handle of by Godwin and Sismondi, and was suppressed in
all subsequent editions, 399.
Attacks continued notwithstanding, the fiercest proceeding from
men who confessed they had not read Malthus’s work, ‹ib.›
The laws of population cannot be comprised in a brief aphorism
or formula, 400.
Were known before Malthus wrote, 402.
Objections to his theory illogical, 405.
Arguments against his geometrical progression not conclusive,
‹ib.›
Wrong in adopting the limit of twenty-five years, although that
holds good in America, 406, 407.
Malthus attributes more force to repressive than preventive
check, 410.
His true formula is, not that population tends to keep on a
level with, but to go beyond, the means of subsistence, 416.
‹Maudit Argent!› pamphlet by Bastiat exposing popular errors
arising from confounding capital with money, and money with
inconvertible paper, 23.
‹Measure of Value›, the ‹quadrature› of Political Economy, 170.